Despite the prevalent mythology of the lone creative genius, many of the most innovative contributions spring from the creative chemistry of a group and the blending of everyone’s ideas and concepts. How can we best leverage this collective wisdom to generate creative synergy and co-create? Let’s look at the process of recognizing and removing our personal creative blocks, connecting and communicating with others, combining ideas using play, and constructing a collaborative environment to discover effective methods for tapping into a group’s creative brilliance. Through these steps, you’ll learn to capitalize on the super-linearity of creativity to embrace and leverage diversity to create better together.

About Denise Jacobs
Denise Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who keynotes conferences and consults with tech companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of The Creative Dose, she teaches game-changing techniques for busting through creative blocks, cultivating collaboration, and up-leveling creative productivity. She leads workshops and trainings that unlock creativity in individuals, teams, and workplaces. A web and tech industry veteran, Denise is the author of the upcoming book Banish Your Inner Critic (available January 2017), The CSS Detective Guide and co-author of the Smashing Book #3 1/3 and Interact with Web Standards. She is also the founder of Rawk The Web and the Head Instigator of The Creativity (R)Evolution.

About Jessie Shternshus
Jessie Shternshus is the owner and founder of The Improv Effect in 2007. Her goal was to help businesses reach their full potential by means of interpersonal-communication
skills training. Throughout the years, Jessie has become a key player in internal culture transformations for global companies such as Skype, Groupon, Netflix, Johnson & Johnson, Getty Images, CapitalOne, Crayola and many more.

Utilizing an array of experiential techniques, she leads teams and organizations in their endeavors to achieve teamwork, creative problem solving tools, presentation skills, and product development ideation sessions. Jessie is also the co-author of CTRL SHIFT.

About the Author

Laura is a marketing project manager in the Connective DX Boston office. She assists in writing and distributing press releases and writing for the agency’s website and multiple blogs. She also helps plan and market various agency sponsored events including the Connective DX hosted annual UX event in Portland, Oregon, Delight. Last, but not least she is responsible for making sure the Boston office is always fully stocked with snacks and drinks. When not at the office, Laura can be found cheering for whatever Boston sports team is in season.

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Delight is hosted by the team at Connective DX, where we design and build great digital experiences. We enable our clients to see their business from the outside in, and we build that insight into the systems we develop and stories we tell. We serve clients globally from our offices in Portland, OR and Boston, MA. We’re digital specialists, working at the intersection of strategy, design, technology, and digital enablement. Founded in 1997 we've been lucky to partner with great organizations such as Columbia Sportswear, OHSU, Harvard University and many more.